Tricia Rose

Tricia Rose is a professor of African studies at Brown University. She is also a feminist and Hip-Hop scholar and a native new yorker. She specializes in Black Culture, Black politics, Black social thought, Male/Female issues and popular culture. She is also the Author of a very informative book titled Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. I feel this would be an excellent literary resource on the subject of Hip Hop for the following reasons. This book had a very well written analysis on the biography of Hip-Hop music. It doesn't criticize this very innovative, historic, important, complex, raw art form. It is a very honest, clear, eye-opening and compelling look into the very real world of Hip-Hop. This book verbalized the realness of Hip-Hop. When I read this book, it gave me many thoughts. It made me think Hip Hop is a raw expression of feelings that are at times so unrefined, it may come of as brash, abrasive, misogynous, demeaning and offensive. All of the previous things said add up to Hip Hop equaling real human emotion. Every thing that one feels is not always good or pure or innocent or holy or moral and that is just reality. Hip-Hop can be a grim, startling, harsh look into reality at times, it can be the underworld that proper society wants to over look and ignore and act as if it doesn't exist. Hip Hops is real, grimy, hood, gutter, unrefined, ingenious, love, hate, harmony, self love, reality, truth, dreams, happiness, sadness, sorrow, drama, pain, ecstasy, lows and highs.. All of this wrapped up in one. I think I would love this book because it expresses that. There are very few writers and people who understand this concept. For anyone and everyone who is looking for a meaningful and well-written analysis on the history of Hip Hop, I would strongly encourage reading this literary masterpiece.